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Sept. 29, 1942. s. A. BLACRMAN CONTAINER Filed April 29. 1940 nv/nv Toe:

Patented Sept. 29, 1942v UNITED STATES PATENT F ICE v CONTAINER a Smith A. Blackman, Kirkwood, Mo., assignor to Gaylord Container Corporation, St. Louis, Mo.,

a corporation of Maryland I Application April 29, 1940, Serial No. 332,293

z'olaims." (01. 200-65) T'his invention relates to containers, particularly fiberboard containers or cartons for bottled goods. 1 l l Theinvention has for its principal objects to provide a cover for a carton of the above type having end flaps that extend downwardly into the carton alongside of the end walls thereof and are adapted to be supported on the tops of the bottle partitions therein, to provide hand holes in said end walls having flaps adapted to be bent inwardly and upwardly through registering hand holes in said cover flaps to thereby reinforce and stiffen the ends of the carton above the registering hand holes, provide along the upper edges of said registering hand holes a smooth round surface for the fingers and prevent entry of the fingers between said end walls and cover flaps. The invention consists in the carton and in the construction, combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed. In the accompanying drawing, which forms part of this specification and wherein like symbols refer to like parts wherever they occur,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a sealed carton embodying my invention,

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of th carton showing the carton unsealed along one edge to form a hinged cover for said carton,

Fig. 3 .is a perspective view of the cover member: and

Fig. 4 is a central vertical longitudinalsection through the carton on the line 4--4 in Fig. 1.

In the accompanying drawing, my invention is shown embodied in a bottl carton of bendable material, such as fiber or corrugated board, folded to form a bottom I, side walls 2 with bendable upper marginal fiaps 3, and endwalls 4 with hand holes 5 therethrough. Th carton is provided below the level of the hand holes 5 with longitudinal and transverse corrugated board partition 6 forming individual bottle compartments 1. The carton is closed by a cover 8, prefe'rably of fiber or corrugated board, having depending end fiaps. 9 that extend downwardly into said carton alongside of the end walls 4 thereof to the level of the body portions of the bottles, their lower end portions being held between said bottles and said end walls. The carton is sealed by folding the upper marginal flaps 3 of its side walls 2 down upon and adhesively or otherwise securing them fiatwise to the adjacent side marginal portion of the cover 8. The carton is unsealed by slitting one of the side walls 2 along a line Ill marked thereon, just below the from said side wall and is thusadapted to swing with the bendable upper marginal flap 3 of the other side wall afterthe manner of a hinged cover.

. important advantages.

According to the present invention, each end flap 9 of the cover extends below the hand holes 5 to substantially the plane of th tops of the bottle partitions 6 and has a hand hole ii therethroughthat registers with the hand hole 5 in the adjacent end wall 4 of the container. Each end wall hand hole 5 has a fiap I2 along the upper edge thereof adapted to be bent inwardly through the registering hand hole II in the adjacent end flap 9 of the cover 8 and upwardly around the upper edge of said registering hand hole and flatwise against the inner face of said end flap when the fingers are inserted in said hand holes'and are bent upwardly to grip the portion of the carton immediately thereabove between the fingers and palm of the hand.

The hereinbefore described carton has several When the carton is lifted by the hand holes, the end flaps of the coverare clamped by the hands between the end walls of the carton and the inwardly and upwardly bent hand hole flaps, whereby said end walls, cover flaps and hand hole'flaps together operate to stiffen and strengthen'the ends of the carton above the hand holes. These folded hand hole flaps also provide smooth rounded edges for the fingers along the upper edges of the hand holes and also serve as wear strips for said edges; and they also prevent insertion of the fingers between said edges of said hand holes and the end walls from taking theentire load when the container is lifted. The depending end flaps of the cover are adapted to seat on the upper edges of the bottle partitions and thus afiord vertical support for the ends of the cover. These relatively deep-end. flaps of the cover have their lower ends disposed alongside the wide lower portions of the endmost rows of bottles which serve to prevent said flaps from being forced inwardly over the tops thereof and the removal of said bottles from the sealed container by forcibly pulling them upwardly between the end walls of the container and the ends of the cover. Y

What I claim is: a 1

1. A sealed shipping carton of bottles having narrow neck portions and wide body portions, said cartoncomprising end walls with hand holes therethrough, a cover for said carton having end flaps that extend downwardly into said level of the cover 8, whereby said cover is freed carton alongside of said end walls and below the level of the hand holes therein, and partitions forming individual compartments for the bottles below the level of said hand holes and adapted to support said end flaps along their lower edges, said end flaps having hand holes therein registering with the hand holes in said end walls, said end flaps being of a depth sufficient to bring the lower ends thereof below the level of the narrow neck portions of said bottles with said end flaps disposed with their lower ends held between the wide body portions of the endmost bottles and said end walls, whereby said wide portions of said endmost bottles are adapted to prevent said end flaps from being forced inwardly and upwardly over the tops thereof and said endmost bottles surreptitiously removed from the sealed carton by forcibly withdrawing said endmost bottles therefrom through the joints between said end walls of said carton and the ends of said cover.

2. A sealed shipping carton of bottles having narrow neck portions and wide body portions, said carton comprising end walls withthand holes therethrough, a cover for said carton having end flaps that extend downwardly into said carton alongside of said end walls and below the lev of the hand holes therein, and partitions forming individual compartments for the bottles below the level of said hand holes and adapted to support said end-flaps along their lower edges, said end flaps having hand holes therein registering with the hand holes in said end walls, said end flaps being of a depth sufllcient to bring the lower ends thereof below the level of the narrow neck portions of said bottles with said end flapsv disposed with their lower ends held between the wide body portions of the endmost bottles and said end walls, whereby said wide portions of said endmost bottles are adapted to prevent said end flaps from being forced inwardly and upwardly over the tops thereof and said endmost bottles surreptitiously removed from the sealed carton by forcibly withdrawing said endmost bot-y tles' therefrom through the joints between said endwalls of said carton and the ends of said cover, saidend walls having flaps along the upper edges of the hand holes therein adapted to be bent through the hand holes in said end flaps and upwardly along the inner faces thereof.

SMITH A. BLACKMAN. 

